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Jewson Competition
Just submitted our application to enter the Jewson Building Better Communities competition! First prize is £50k in building materials & cash. Will we be the ONE?
Timberrrr!
It was always our plan to build with load-bearing straw walls. Our design team at Straw Works still believe it would be possible, but our Engineer at Renaissance has said “No.” Apparently, the 10m span across the hall would be too wide to support the upper floor and roof. Instead, Helen, our engineer has designed…
Pioneering Work
When we set out on this road to build Europe’s First Straw-Bale Church building – and possibly the largest straw-bale community building – it never really occurred to me what it meant to be a pioneer. I just thought, this is it, and we’re getting on with it. Now I know the truth! Hannah Jones…
Church Council Agrees to Upper Rooms
On Monday 2nd December Holy Trinity PCC agreed to expand our original plan to include a strip of Upper Rooms in the roof space of the hall. This is now seen as an absolutely necessary step in order to get permission for building. Without the extra Upper Rooms, the hall will only partially meet our…
Conventional Build Carbon Footprint: 400 tonnes. Our Build: MINUS 479 tonnes.
An average 85m2 UK home of brick and concrete is said to release 68 tonnes CO2 in construction. For a building like ours of 643m2, we would expect to release something like 450 tonnes with conventional construction. Using Alternative Construction the picture is more like this (from the ground up): Crushed Concrete MOT Type-1: Waste…